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By studying the text of Mamari (especially side a) it becomes evident that tagata rere glyphs were used to mark the end of seasons:

waxing sun
36 139 33
Ca2-11 (100) Ca7-9 (240)
6 * 29.5 = 177
210 = 14 * 15
waning sun waxing sun
116 62
Ca8-12 Ca12-12 Ca12-13 Ca12-14 (1)
118 = 4 * 29.5 63
182 = 13 * 14

Ca7-9 and Ca8-12 are looking back and their meaning, therefore, should be the opposite - they mark the beginning of a season. When counting time number 240 will be equal to 'time zero'.

Another example, on side b, shows tagata rere located just before a Rogo glyph:

Cb7-22 Cb7-23 Cb7-24 (168) Cb7-25 Cb7-26 Cb7-27

This Rogo seems to identify the end of a cycle with 6 months, each counted as 28 nights. 6 * 28 = 168 = 7 * 24. Rogo is positioned at 'time zero' and the following vero glyph presumably 'kills' the old 'year'. The maro string growing at left means 'growth is in the past'.